Raiders set up private workout with QB from Purdue
The Las Vegas Raiders were in the market for a quarterback before free agency started. Most people thought it was either going to be the Raiders trading for Aaron Rodgers or them taking a quarterback with their seventh pick in the draft. Now with Jimmy Garoppolo on their team, as they signed him to a […]
The Las Vegas Raiders were in the market for a quarterback before free agency started. Most people thought it was either going to be the Raiders trading for Aaron Rodgers or them taking a quarterback with their seventh pick in the draft.
Now with Jimmy Garoppolo on their team, as they signed him to a long-term deal in free agency, they have other areas to focus on. But, Josh McDaniels recently said that they wouldn't be opposed to still taking a quarterback in the draft.
"I think we would take the best player," McDaniels said via NFL.com. "We've kind of said that since we came here. I think we think that's the right way to go. [General manager Dave Ziegler] and I both believe in that: Take the best football player. It always makes your football team better. I'd say there's a chance we're going to end up adding to the quarterback room in free agency here, continuing to move forward, and then also we're looking at every guy in the draft, too," McDaniels said. "So we're doing our work. We're doing our due diligence. We'll see how the board falls."
Recently, a report came out that the Raiders were going to host a visit for a potential day-two quarterback.
Per Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, Purdue quarterback Aidan O’Connell has a private workout on Tuesday with the Dallas Cowboys. Pelissero also mentioned that O’Connell has private visits and workouts set up with the New York Jets, Las Vegas Raiders, New Orleans Saints, Cincinnati Bengals, Indianapolis Colts, and Chicago Bears.
O'Connell is a guy that is projected to go anywhere from the second round to the fourth round by multiple mock drafts. This would mean the Raiders have an interest in taking a non-quarterback at number seven, which we all agree they shouldn't with the recent Jimmy Garoppolo signing.
